Desalination plant

Australia is the driest continent on earth and despite this the installed desalination capacity is still around 1% of the total world’s desalination capacity. This paper reviews the main seawater issues considered in every desalination project—the history, the present situation and the future of des

Tunisia is a semi arid country; the shortage of good water quality in particular at the south regions forced the government to desalt brackish water via membrane technology such as RO to supply these regions with potable water. Station of Djerba Isle established in 2000 by SONEDE has a nominal capac

Tunisia, located in a semi-arid zone, has limited water resources. The shortage of good water quality in particular at the south regions required a brackish water desalination to supply these regions with potable water. Zarzis desalination plant, working since 1999, has revealed difficulties related

We present an analysis of energy and exergy utilization in the utility sector of Saudi Arabia by considering the sectoral energy and exergy flows for the years 1990–2001. Energy and exergy analyses were conducted for its two subsectors, namely power-only plants and power/distillation plants, and hen

This paper describes the construction and operation of shipboard desalination plants. This innovation provides a means of supplying s fresh water to almost every location on the Earth, especially to ports and towns on the shores of arid areas and deserts with hot and dry climatic conditions. The sys

It is known that power stations use seawater for condensation of steam from turbines. In this case the temperature of seawater in condensers increases by 10–20°C. A large quantity of heat is lost in condensers. The energy can be used for desalination of seawater in a plant, which includes a low temp

In July 1997 the Spanish Government awarded the construction of the Las Palmas–Telde Desalination Plant to DETELCA U.T.E. The project consists mainly of replacing the existing Las Palmas I desalination plant of the MSF type with two advanced low temperature multi-effect distillation (LT-MED) seawate

The paper presents an attempt to assess sustainability of desalination plants for water production based on resource, environmental and economic indicators. Four types of desalination plants are taken into a consideration: single MSF, dual purpose MSF, RO with local energy consumption and RO with PV